36: Chapter 36 Symbiosis! Fourth-Rank Beast Tamer!
[Current Spirit Beast: Profound Heaven Sacred Turtle]
[Grade: Saint Spirit Level!]
[Level: Lv.6]
[Agility: 26834]
[Defense: 214689]
[Spirit: 76548]
[Combat Power: 154986]
[Skills: Violent Rupture Counter, Profound Turtle Secret Art.]
[Violent Rupture Counter: Damage suffered from attacks is halved, while the caster receives double the attack damage in return (This skill is a locked skill, ignoring any evasion effects).]
[Profound Turtle Secret Art: When activated, attributes double for a short time, and the effects of all skills are increased by fifty percent (Secret Art cooldown is one hundred and forty-four hours).]
[Evolution Points required for next evolution: three million.]
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Saint Spirit Level!
"Holy shit!"
Chu Ran's breathing became rapid.
He thought it would take at least three more days to accumulate nine hundred thousand Evolution Points to advance a Monarch to Saint Spirit Level, but he never expected this fourth contract to directly trigger a critical hit!
Good heavens...
Chu Ran looked at the panel data, too shocked to speak...
Although the Strength attribute still hasn't appeared, this two hundred and fourteen thousand Defense is enough to prove its power...
[Defense] contributes far less to combat power than [Strength], but the Sacred Turtle's combat power is almost catching up to the Dragon Sparrow and the Thunder Flood Dragon...
And the Sacred Turtle is only level six!
Without the attribute increases from leveling up, it already possesses the combat power of a Monarch over level one hundred...
Monarch Grade beasts gain an average of five hundred attribute points per level up. The attribute gains for Saint Spirit Level can only be higher!
No wonder there's the old saying: all other paths are inferior, only Beast Taming is supreme...
If this Saint Spirit Level Sacred Turtle could reach max level, forget Eighth Revolution Professionals, even Ninth Revolution powerhouses probably couldn't do much to it...
Moreover, there is one biggest difference between Saint Spirit Level Spirit Beasts and Monarch Grade Spirit Beasts.
Secret Arts!
Only upon reaching Saint Spirit Level can they truly be called behemoths!
Secret Arts provide a massive boost to Spirit Beasts...
The already formidable Saint Spirit Level Spirit Beasts can even double their attributes when activating a Secret Art...
Furthermore, Chu Ran discovered that although the Sacred Turtle lacks a Strength attribute, it possesses a formidable skill!
[Violent Rupture Counter: Damage suffered from attacks is halved, while the caster receives double the attack damage in return]
It doesn't attack proactively, but damage suffered is halved, and it can counterattack the caster with double the damage!
This means if an enemy deals one hundred points of damage to the Sacred Turtle, it actually only takes fifty, while the enemy suffers two hundred points of backlash!
For the Profound Heaven Sacred Turtle with near-maxed Defense, this is a perfect match!
Even more overpowered is that this skill ignores any evasion, meaning anyone who attacks the Sacred Turtle will 100% receive double the counterattack!
Can tank, can deal damage, simply invincible!
This is a Saint Spirit Level Spirit Beast!
"Incredible!"
Chu Ran exclaimed repeatedly, his smile almost impossible to suppress.
He immediately cast the skill [Symbiosis].
[Skill Binding Target: Profound Heaven Sacred Turtle.]
[Skill Effect: You and this Spirit Beast are life-bound. Damage can be freely transferred between you. If one dies, the other will be severely wounded and enter a near-death state.]
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With this double insurance, Chu Ran was in high spirits.
Just as he was about to leave, he received another notification.
[You have obtained a Saint Spirit Level Spirit Beast.]
[First Trial of Divine Selection completed.]
[Overflow experience has been used...]
[You have leveled up...]
[Reached current level cap. Overflow experience has been stored...]
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[Profession: Fourth Turn · Divine Beast Tamer]
[Level: Lv.6 → Lv.80]
[Strength: 373 → 5730]
[Agility: 478 → 6780]
[Spirit: 2672 → 28072]
[Combat Power: 2878 → 31098]
[Free Attribute Points: 200 points]
[Skills: Contract Spell, Summon Spirit Diagram, Symbiosis.]
[Spirit Beasts: Lv.147 Canglan Thunder Dragon, Lv.151 Blazing Dragon Sparrow, Lv.176 Blood Shadow Mosquito Emperor, Lv.6 Profound Heaven Sacred Turtle]
[Equipment: Molten Demon Heaven Armor (Monarch Grade), lava saint boots (Saint Spirit Level!)]
[Equipment Effects...]
[Current Evolution Points: 22153...221506...221509...]
[Remaining Contracts: One.]
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He just contracted his fourth Spirit Beast and immediately gained twenty levels and another contract...
Chu Ran felt that only the Divine Selection Trials could stop his leveling...
If the Seven Trials of Divine Selection didn't exist, the stored experience should probably let him directly reach level one hundred and eighty...
This leveling speed is simply too fast...
Chu Ran felt his heart racing...
However, judging from the base panel attributes without equipment and Spirit Beasts, Beast Tamers truly deserve the title of the profession with the lowest growth attributes, bar none...
Even this so-called Divine Beast Tamer hasn't changed that...
Each level only increases each attribute by one hundred points, plus one hundred free attribute points. It simply can't compare to the Spirit Beasts...
Of course, it might also be because the Spirit Beasts' bloodlines are too high, making them inherently incomparable.
But Chu Ran didn't feel disappointed. Beast Tamers—as long as the Spirit Beasts are strong, that's what matters!
The time is about right. It's time to head to the Imperial Capital in the Central Region to see the world.
Thinking this, Chu Ran left the Profound Mirror Heavenly Lake Secret Realm directly...
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Only after Chu Ran left did Wang Tao snap back to reality.
He had been standing here the whole time, staring at that person for nearly twenty minutes, not daring to look away for a moment...
He's just too strong!
A top-tier Beast Tamer came to the Profound Mirror Heavenly Lake during its silent period... just to bully low-level monsters?
After slaughtering everything in sight, he just took one juvenile beast?
If the other party had taken all the juvenile beasts in one go, Wang Tao might not have been so surprised.
He went through all that trouble... well, actually not much trouble...
Not for money, just for fun?
Bullying monsters in a Level 7 Secret Realm...
That's just terrifying...
The demon beasts here are all known for their defense...
"What a big shot..."
Wang Tao lowered his head and sighed.
If he had known the other party wasn't here to catch juvenile beasts, he should have gone up to talk earlier and then conveniently packed up the juvenile beasts...
That was a huge sum of money...
Juvenile beasts only stay on the water's surface out of curiosity for a very short time. Wang Tao had no chance to catch them now...
But it wasn't a complete loss.
"Brother Tao! Come quick and collect! Your wish really came true!" The dark-skinned woman was putting the demon beast remains and dropped equipment into her spatial ring, excitedly giving the man a kiss.
Thinking she would also own a South African big diamond... no, also North African... East African and West African ones...
She was so excited she couldn't contain herself: "Brother Tao, you're the best man I've ever seen! I love you!"
Wang Tao stared blankly in the direction Chu Ran left: "He's the most awesome man I've ever seen..."
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This year, even when the Profound Mirror Heavenly Lake reaches its mature season, there probably won't be any more demon beasts coming ashore, because the mature ones are basically all dead...
So, there was no need for the Heavenly Flame Knight Regiment to keep guarding. They simply packed up and left.
But they didn't leave empty-handed. Just that pile of remains was worth more than their combined earnings from the past two years...
So, waiting for a windfall does work. Who knows when a pie might fall from the sky...
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"Give me one invitation to the Profound Mirror Heavenly Lake Secret Realm."
Another new Professional wanted to try his luck in this Level 7 Secret Realm but was refused.
"Sorry, the secret realm is temporarily closed for a while."
"Wasn't it said this secret realm never closes?" The Professional looked surprised.
In the past, even during each mature season, not many demon beasts in the Profound Mirror Heavenly Lake died, so it never closed. But this time was different. Too many mature ones died. If it doesn't close for a while, this secret realm might disappear from the Dragon Country in the future...
After learning the reason, the Professional was utterly shocked.
All those years, with so many hunting teams guarding and killing here, they never managed to kill to this extent.
Who did this this year, achieving such a result? Could it be the military wanting to completely wipe out this secret realm?
Curious, he glanced at the camera at the entrance.
After watching, his expression turned puzzled: "Are film crews these days so dedicated? They shoot sci-fi movies on location in secret realms now?"
That kind of area-of-effect damage... those explosive effects... could a human possibly produce that?
Even cheating in games, he wouldn't dare play like that...
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